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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

Museum 2.0

Facilitator bits. While Jim and I explained clearly to Wild Idea proposers what they needed to do to submit their project for consideration before MuseumNext, we didn't give them enough support in actually facilitating their group brainstorming at the event. You did great.

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Symantec Gives Back

Tech Soup

In Alexandria and Herndon, Virginia, Symantec employees, together with Team Business , Girls in Technology , and the Women in Technology Education Foundation , organized and facilitated a business simulation for young women to highlight the impact of technology on business and help them build leadership and communication skills.

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Great Conversationalists: Reflections on Being a Dial-a-Stranger

Museum 2.0

And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. I've learned to listen in a more nuanced way and to appreciate the skill with which Mercedes and Zachary draw out their guests, who are after all perfect strangers. They really cared about me.

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Sadly, this is not the case. of the past.

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